The College News
Volume I. No. 20
BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 11, 1915
Price 5 Cents
Primltih JtstVe* Co- pyramid SCENE FROM THE FRESHMAN SHOW
CALENDAR
FRIDAY, MARCH 12
g p. ii.�Christian Association Conference.
Address by The Rev. G. A. Johnston Rosa.
SATURDAY, MARCH 13
10 a. m�Apparatus competition between
1917 and 1918.
Senior Orals in French.
8;p. M.�Lecture by Mr. Frank Harris.
SUNDAY. MARCH 14
6 p. M.�Vespers. Speaker, Miw Anne
Wiggin of Spring Street.
8 p. ii.�Chapel. Preacher, The Rev. J.
Valdemer Moldenhauer.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH IT
8 p. H.�Bible and Mission Classes.
8.30 p. u.�Junior Freshmen Debate.
9.30 p. m.�Mid-week Meeting of the C. A.
Leader, L. Garfield.
FRIDAY. MARCH 19
Announcement of European Fellows.
Fellowship Dinners.
8.30 P. M.�Lecture by Mrs. Arthur Man-
niere on "The Painted Desert Country".
SATURDAY, MARCH 20
Senior Orals in German.
SUNDAY, MARCH 21
Vespers. Speaker, L. T. Smith, 18.
8 P. M�Chapel. Preacher, The Rev. Robert
FRIDAY, MARCH M
4 p. u�Gymnastic Content, between 1917
and 1918.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31
Easter Vacation begins at one o'clock.
OFFICIAL NOTICE8
All undergraduates expecting to return
to College next year are required to pay a
room fee of $15 and to file a room con-
tract with the Secretary of the College
on or before Monday, March 29th.
Every student wishing to reserve her
present room for next year must write
the number of her room on her contract.
"Hall Draw" must be written on the con-
tracts of those who wish to remain In the
same hall but to change their rooms, and
"General Draw" on the contracts of those
who wish to move to another hall.
All contracts mutt be signed by a par-
ent or guardian.
All rooms not reserved by their present
occupants by March 29th will be consid-
ered vacant and will be re-asslgned for
next year.
Condition Examinations
All students that expect to take de-
ferred and condition examinations must
obtain cards at the Secretary's office.
The fee for each matriculation condi-
tion examination is $3.00, and cards may
be obtained at any time before the exami-
nation begins.
The fee for punctuation is $1.00, and
cards may be obtained at any time before
the examination begins.
The fee for each collegiate condition or
deferred examination is $6.00 and cards
may be obtained before 3.30 p. m.. Mon-
day, March 15th.
Any student that registers for a colle-
giate examination after 3.30 p. m., Mon-
day, March 15th, will be required to pay
an additional fee of $5.00.
REVIVAL OF FENCING MATCH
More
Undergraduates to Fence Ones
Against the Alumnae
Soon after Easter vacation the Alum
nae and the undergraduates are to fence
against each other. Since 1912, the un-
dergraduates have been unable to re-
spond to the challenge of the Alumnae,
but once more they feel bold enough to
try their skill. In the two matches which
have been held between these two teams,
the Alumna- have both times been vic-
torious. In 1911. E. Klrkbride, '96; B.
Ehlera, '09; C. Wesson, '09, for the
Alumna?, fenced against a Varsity team,
K. Chambers, '11; H. Emerson, '11; M.
Hobart, '11, with a score of 6-3, and in
1912, K. Chambers, '11; B. Ehlers, '09;
E. Klrkbride. '96, and G. Biddle. '09, de-
feated E. Hurd, '12. Captain; A. M. Tay-
lor, '13; I. VlncenL 12; H. Stix, '14; C.
Hewitt, '15.
The fencers among the undergraduates
elected E. Rapallo to manage the team.
Practice for this team will be held In the
gymnasium on Tuesday night at quarter
before nine.
GREEK GAMES AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
On April 22d the University of Call
fornia will hold genuine Greek games.
They will be given in a way aa much like
that of the ancient games as possible.
The contestants are to be attired In Gre-
cian costume, and the Judges will wear
the robes of Achaean noblemen The
Greek rules and order of events will be
observed. The prise will be a laurel
wreath
WHAT D'YE MEAN, THE MONGOOSE
DYED?
The Freshman 8how a Success
CAST
1918......................J. Hemenway
1916 ........................V. Pomeroy
Aunt Etiquette.............E. Hougbton
Personal Conductor............M. Allen
Arabs.........................T. Howell
J. Rldlon
Mongoose....................L. Hodges
Scarab........................M. 8cott
Freshman.....................C. Dodge
Khedive .......................M. Stair
Fortune Teller .............V. Kneeland
Snake Charmer..............L. Pearson
Congratulations to 1918 and welcome to
their class animal! The Mongoose was
very active even after dyeing. The orig-
inality and artlsticness of the posters an-
nouncing the Freshman Show were ri-
valled by the show itself. Such an excel-
lent production is possible only with great
attention to detail. Indefatigable work
and the co-operation of the whole class.
It Is especially difficult to get a Freshman
class to work together and to fit the dif-
ferent members into the right positions.
On this score as well as on the success
of her stage managing much credit is due
C. Dodge.
The first act at Bryn Mawr is. of course,
not new; in fact, it is extremely trite, but
It was saved by the original execution, by
the hockey chorus especially.
The second and third acts were the
really original parts of the performance.
It's a long jump from Bryn Mawr to
Egypt and takes Inventive genius. This
was furnished In great part by V. Pome-
roy, who designed the scenery of the sec-
ond act, the inside of a Pyramid looking
out on the Nile, and to Mary Senior, chair-
man of the committee on scenery. It
was the chef d'oevre of the evening. The
accuracy of the hieroglyphics on the wall
and the mummy cases, together with the
excellent posing of the friese, and the
scarab on its altar, created immediately
an ancient Egyptian atmosphere. The
audience marveled at the composure of
M. Scott, the scarab, in maintaining so
difficult a position throughout the act. in
which she sang admirably several times.
The mummies suddenly hopping out of
their rases startled the audience Into
shouts of laughter The next feature, the
College In 1000 B.C.. was One. especially
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MIS8 KING'S 8PEECH IN CHAPEL
On the Annual Exhibition of the Philadel-
phia Academy of Fine Arts
The Exhibition has been running long
enough now for most of you to have seen
j it and all of you to have heard about It.
The general opinion seems to be that
| while It might have been very much
worse, yet It might have been a good
deal better. My own Impression, the first
time that I saw it, was confirmed when
I went back to study the pictures, that
while the general level of work is fair
and very little comes lagging as far as
the ideals of 1840 on the Hudson River,
which appear every year In the Academy
in New York, yet none of the great splen-
did stirring things which I remember hav-
ing seen at the Philadelphia Academy
(not in my childhood, for everything
seems stirring then, but not so many
years ago), are in this Exhibition. Just
to confirm my own impression of what
might be the reason for this, I went to
New York and walked through Fifth
Avenue, stopping at the picture dealers'
shops, for It is they who can tell what
pictures will be successful. A great So-
cialist lately said that no great and good
thing was ever brought to pass except
on commercial grounds. Things get
done not because they are right, but be-
cause they are needed. The picture
dealers can tell you which way the
stream is going to run. And after I had
sat down In the Metropolitan Museum at
the top of Fifth Avenue, foot-sore and
weary, I knew the reason there was
nothing more surprising and more per-
sonal In the Academy was because the
artists knew that doing that kind of
thing would Insure them Immediate
rejection by the Hanging Committee.
I am going to speak this morning about
the pictures that strike you first, then I
am going on with the new names. When-
ever I go to an exhibition, I try to bring
away with me one or two names that I
have not heard of before. They may not
be entirely new, but at least I have not
heard of them. For the next time I shall
leave the question of the prises and why
they were given and why they should or
should not have been given and also say
something about the portrait and land
scape painting In a more general way.
The first thing one sees Is the b.-�u(l
ful decoration by Henry Mi-Carter It
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